Titty Graphics In Face.

“Discrete packaging”

wooosh?

I could care less about this

It will be used for that. But it may also be used to put me in a camp for typng this comment… eventually

And if not this proclamation, then the next.

We are here. This is fascism.

This is fascism. We are here

We thought it could never get better than this

And we were right

Thelma Louise supported men who don’t respect her and drove hours across the Southwest only to have her plans foiled.

Don’t go to the Grand Canyon, Thelma!

Never too old for another “vacation”

I do. And my pronouns are he/him.

It’ll be just slow enough that they won’t finish before they lose power again.

I will continue to vote and I will continue to advocate for and participate in collective action to put pressure on whoever is in power.

But I can’t just decide that things look hopeful. They don’t. Not when the vast majority of the country still thinks the only problem is MAGA.

It will be the only step though. Even right now with fascists in power most of the working class refuse to even consider trying to shut down the economy and demand real change. What do you think will happen when Dems get power back?

Yes, he did the bare minimum.

And look where we are now.

He and his party should have fought like hell to make sure this couldn’t happen again. They didn’t. And those of us who are old enough to have observed the trend line in our political history should already have figured out why.

Yeah, but we’re not gonna get what we want. We may get a Dem majority for two years. We may even get a Dem president in 28. And then most people will go back to sleep while our government continue to support genocide and imperialism, continue to fund ICE while doing the bare minimum to reign in their most egregious behavior, continue to say we can’t have Medicare for All, and continue to obfuscate and delay release of the redacted portions of the Epstein files.

Even here on Lemmy, a platform full of people with non-mainstream views, there is so much resistance to what I’m saying. It makes me feel hopeless.

EDIT: clarity, no content changes

I never said I wouldn’t vote, and I added an edit to my comment that clarifies my position several minutes before you posted this response.

They are not the same. But they work for the same team and we’re not on it (unless you’re a billionaire on Lemmy).

The Dems will only do our bidding if we make them. And we make them by having a general strike.

Is this sarcasm?

Even if MAGA doesn’t tamper with the election to keep control of Congress, we’ve seen already what Dems do when they get power back. They keep most of the fascistic policies implemented by the red team, drag their feet prosecuting any of the MAGA leadership, continue our imperialist foreign policy unchecked, and refuse to implement widely popular domestic programs.

Our only recourse is working class solidarity. General Strike.

EDIT: To clarify my point - yes, we should vote in November. But just voting - even if it results in Dem supermajorities in Congress - will not save us. The Dems generally don’t go out of their way to persecute the working class, but they don’t fight for us either. They are the “good cop” who gets us to cooperate with the billionaire agenda because we don’t want them to send in the “bad cop” (MAGA) again. The only way they will do our bidding is if we force them, and we do that with a general strike.

PeeWee Himmler 😆 😆 😆

They called them terrorists so they could deny them the rights normally afforded to people accused of a crime (for instance, they can be held 14 days without charge instead of only 24 hours).

That’s always been the end game for the term. At first this legal grey zone was mostly applied to people outside the imperial core so fewer Westerners gave a shit. Now it’s coming home baby.